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2019 NHL All-Star Skills Competition: Blackhawks’ Patrick Kane to compete in puck control challenge

Blackhawks winger Patrick Kane will participate in two events during the NHL Skills Competition on Friday night at SAP Center in San Jose, California.

Kane will take part in the puck control challenge and as a shooter in the save streak competition. The NHL announced a full participants list for all six events Friday afternoon prior to the event, which starts at 8 p.m. Central time on NBC Sports Network.

Chicagoland native Kendall Coyne-Schofield, a 2018 Olympic champion with the U.S. women’s national team, will replace Avalanche forward Nathan MacKinnon in the fastest skater event. She was originally scheduled to participate in the accuracy shooting.

The six events include accuracy shooting, fastest skater, hardest shot, passing and puck control challenge and save streak.

Each individual event winner will receive $25,000.

Here are the six events with participants for each one:

Accuracy Shooting

1. Drew Doughty, Los Angeles Kings

2. Nikita Kucherov, Tampa Bay Lightning

3. Kris Letang, Pittsburgh Penguins

4. Auston Matthews, Toronto Maple Leafs

5. Kyle Palmieri, New Jersey Devils

6. David Pastrnak, Boston Bruins

7. Joe Pavelski, San Jose Sharks

8. Blake Wheeler, Winnipeg Jets

Fastest Skater

1. Cam Atkinson, Columbus Blue Jackets

2. Mathew Barzal, New York Islanders

3. Kendall Coyne-Schofield, U.S. Women’s National Team

4. Jack Eichel, Buffalo Sabres

5. Miro Heiskanen, Dallas Stars

6. Clayton Keller, Arizona Coyotes

7. Connor McDavid, Edmonton Oilers

8. Elias Pettersson, Vancouver Canucks

Hardest Shot

1. Brent Burns, San Jose Sharks

2. John Carlson, Washington Capitals

3. Seth Jones, Columbus Blue Jackets

4. Steven Stamkos, Tampa Bay Lightning

Passing Challenge

1. Sebastian Aho, Carolina Hurricanes

2. Thomas Chabot, Ottawa Senators

3. Leon Draisaitl, Edmonton Oilers

4. Roman Josi, Nashville Predators

5. Erik Karlsson, San Jose Sharks

6. Ryan O’Reilly, St. Louis Blues

7. Mikko Rantanen, Colorado Avalanche

8. Keith Yandle, Florida Panthers

Puck Control

1. Johnny Gaudreau, Calgary Flames

2. Claude Giroux, Philadelphia Flyers

3. Patrick Kane, Chicago Blackhawks

4. Gabriel Landeskog, Colorado Avalanche

5. Elias Pettersson, Vancouver Canucks

6. Mark Scheifele, Winnipeg Jets

7. Jeff Skinner, Buffalo Sabres

8. John Tavares, Toronto Maple Leafs

Save Streak

1. Devan Dubnyk, Minnesota Wild

2. Marc-Andre Fleury, Vegas Golden Knights

3. John Gibson, Anaheim Ducks

4. Braden Holtby, Washington Capitals

5. Jimmy Howard, Detroit Red Wings

6. Henrik Lundqvist, New York Rangers

7. Pekka Rinne, Nashville Predators

8. Andrei Vasilevskiy, Tampa Bay Lightning

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